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Zhang, Y. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Watson, S.J. (author)In this paper, the feasibility of using far-field acoustic measurements as a non-contact monitoring technique for wind turbine blade leading edge erosion is assessed. For this purpose, a DU96 W180 airfoil with several eroded leading edge configurations of different severities is experimentally investigated. The eroded leading edges are designed...journal article 2023
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Cheneka, B.R. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Basu, S. (author)Only a few studies on the overall impact of climate change on offshore wind power production and wind power ramps in the North Sea region have been published. This study focuses on the characteristics of expected wind power production and wind power ramps in the future climate aided by the classification of circulations patterns using a self...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Y. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Watson, S.J. (author)In recent years, with the development of the wind power industry and the increase in the number of wind turbines, the condition monitoring of blades and the detection of damage are increasingly important. In this work, a new non-contact damage-detection approach is experimentally investigated based on the measurement of airfoil aerodynamic noise...journal article 2022
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Mitchell, Daniel (author), Blanche, Jamie (author), Harper, Sam (author), Lim, Theodore (author), Gupta, Ranjeetkumar (author), Zaki, Osama (author), Tang, Wenshuo (author), Robu, Valentin (author), Watson, Simon (author), Flynn, David (author)The UK has set plans to increase offshore wind capacity from 22GW to 154GW by 2030. With such tremendous growth, the sector is now looking to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) in order to tackle lifecycle service barriers as to support sustainable and profitable offshore wind energy production. Today, RAI applications are...review 2022
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Li, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)In the coming decades, the European energy system is expected to become increasingly reliant on non-dispatchable generation such as wind and solar power. Under such a renewable energy scenario, a better characterization of the extreme weather condition ‘Dunkelflaute’, which can lead to a sustained reduction of wind and solar power, is important....journal article 2021
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Zhang, Y. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Watson, S.J. (author)Recent decades have witnessed more and more wind turbines (WTs) being installed onshore and offshore. Health condition monitoring for WTs structures and components is increasingly becoming a compelling concern for stable power output and operational safety of a wind farm [1]. Blade damages seem to occur with a higher probability ahead of other...abstract 2021
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Associating Synoptic-Scale Weather Patterns with Aggregated Offshore Wind Power Production and RampsCheneka, B.R. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Basu, S. (author)Large-scale weather patterns and their variability can influence both the amount of wind power production and its temporal variation, i.e., wind power ramps. In this study, we use a self-organizing map to cluster hourly sea level pressure into a discrete number of weather patterns. The dependency of wind power production and wind power ramps on...journal article 2021
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Li, B. (author), Basu, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)In the near future, wind and solar generation are projected to play an increasingly important role in Europe's energy sector. With such fast-growing renewable energy development, the presence of simultaneous calm wind and overcast conditions could cause significant shortfalls in production with potentially serious consequences for system...journal article 2021
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Cheneka, B.R. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Basu, S. (author)Large-scale weather systems have the potential to modulate offshore wind energy production. The Northern European sea areas have recently seen a rapid increase in wind power capacity and thus there is a need to understand how different weather systems affect offshore production from the perspective of energy system integration. In this study,...journal article 2020
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Arends, Eric Lacoa (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Basu, S. (author), Cheneka, B.R. (author)A series of probabilistic models were bench-marked during the European Energy Markets forecasting Competition 2020 to assess their relative accuracy in predicting aggregated Swedish wind power generation using as input historic weather forecasts from a numerical weather prediction model. In this paper, we report the results of one of these...conference paper 2020
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Yürüşen, Nurseda Y. (author), Rowley, Paul N. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Melero, Julio J. (author)While many operation and maintenance (O&M) decision support systems (DSS) have been already proposed, a serious research need still exists for wind farm O&M scheduling. O&M planning is a challenging task, as maintenance teams must follow specific procedures when performing their service, which requires working at height in adverse...journal article 2020
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Basu, S. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Lacoa Arends, Eric (author), Cheneka, B.R. (author)A hybrid neural network model, comprising of a convolutional neural network and a multilayer perceptron network, has been developed for day-ahead forecasting of regional scale wind power production. This model requires operational weather forecasts as input and also has the capability to ingest data from ensemble forecasts. Even though the...conference paper 2020
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Bechtle, Philip (author), Schelbergen, M. (author), Schmehl, R. (author), Zillmann, Udo (author), Watson, S.J. (author)We compare the available wind resources for conventional wind turbines and for airborne wind energy systems. Accessing higher altitudes and continuously adjusting the harvesting operation to the wind resource substantially increases the potential energy yield. The study is based on the ERA5 reanalysis data which covers a period of 7 years...journal article 2019
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Watson, S.J. (author), Moro, Alberto (author), Reis, Vera (author), Baniotopoulos, Charalampos (author), Barth, Stephan (author), Bartoli, Gianni (author), Bauer, Florian (author), Jamieson, Peter (author), Schmehl, R. (author)This paper represents an expert view from Europe of future emerging technologies within the wind energy sector considering their potential, challenges, applications and technology readiness and how they might evolve in the coming years. These technologies were identified as originating primarily from the academic sector, some start-up...review 2019
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Tautz-Weinert, Jannis (author), Yürüşen, Nurseda Y. (author), Melero, Julio J. (author), Watson, S.J. (author)Commercial operation and maintenance of wind farms always involves trying to find the most cost-effective solution from various possible options. In this paper, a maintenance action within a Spanish wind farm was studied, whereby a blade replacement was required to prevent catastrophic failure. The conducted replacement was accompanied by an...journal article 2019
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Ibrahim, Raed Khalaf (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Djurović, Siniša (author), Crabtree, C.J. (author)Determining the magnitude of particular fault signature components (FSCs) generated by wind turbine (WT) faults from current signals has been used as an effective way to detect early abnormalities. However, the WT current signals are time varying due to the constantly varying generator speed. The WT frequently operates with the generator close...journal article 2018
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Argyle, Peter (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Montavon, Christiane (author), Jones, Ian (author), Smith, Megan (author)The IEC standard 61400-1 edition 3 uses the so-called Frandsen model to assess levels of turbulence intensity (TI) within wind farms, specifically to determine turbine suitability associated with stress and fatigue. Since the Frandsen model was developed, turbines have significantly grown in size and the number of turbines in an individual wind...journal article 2018
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Desmond, Cian J. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), Montavon, Christiane (author), Murphy, Jimmy (author)The flow over densely forested terrain under neutral and non-neutral conditions is considered using commercially available computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. Results are validated against data from a site in Northeastern France. It is shown that the effects of both neutral and stable atmospheric stratifications can be modelled...journal article 2018
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Xiang, Jianping (author), Jiang, Nannan (author), Watson, S.J. (author)A Morlet wavelet-based compensated algorithm was proposed to calculate the accurate amplitudes of faulty signals. The specific way is to compute the time range and frequency values of the faulty signals at first, and then to compensate the amplitudes calculated for above faulty signals according to the center frequency values of Morlet...journal article 2017